- Projects
- A Marriage: 1 (Suburbia) Jake Margolin & Nick Vaughan
- Artaud in the Black Lodge David T. Little
- Botch Joe Diebes
- Chang(e) Soomi Kim
- City Council Meeting Aaron Landsman
- Floating Point Waves Shige Moriya & Ximena Garnica
- GENET PORNO Yvan Greenberg/Laboratory Theater
- Glass Mouth Leyna Marika Papach
- Keep Your Electric Eye On Me Shaun Irons & Lauren Petty
- Lost Property Unit Mei-Yin Ng
- Restless Nest Rebecca Davis
- Science Fair Hai-Ting Chinn
- Send for the Million Men Joseph Silovsky
- The Pigeoning Robin Frohardt
- The Scarlet Ibis Stefan Weisman & David Cote
- Trade Practices Kristin Marting & David Morris
- Weights and Balances Bora Yoon
- You Are Dead. You Are Here. Christine Evans & Joseph Megel & Jared Mezzocchi
Keep Your Electric Eye On Me • Shaun Irons & Lauren Petty
Show Description
A solitary woman dwells in an otherworldly landscape — messianic rock star, space explorer, spectral guide – where she inhabits a defunct satellite adrift in a decaying technological oasis. In this hermetic dream world, seemingly cut off from the outside, quiet moments are punctuated with bursts of raucous energy as cryptic signals are transmitted via live feed cameras, projections and sound devices. Part video installation, interactive media lab and live performance, Keep Your Electric Eye On Me explores the malleable conception of the self in an era of cyber communication, engaging notions of loneliness, paranoia and the desire for the unattainable.
Featured Media
Artist Bio
For nearly a decade, Shaun Irons and Lauren Petty have been seeking evocative and poetic combinations of video, film, audio and performance to create multiple-channel installations, single-channel pieces and documentaries. Their work has been exhibited in diverse locations in New York and internationally. Awards include two NYFA Fellowships, multiple grants from the NEA, NYSCA, Jerome Foundation, The Greenwall Foundation, The Experimental TV Center, and The Asian Cultural Council, as well as residency fellowships from The MacDowell Colony, Yaddo and the Tokyo Wonder Site. They actively design video for multi-media performance and have collaborated with a wide range of artists. Their video design work has been seen at St. Ann’s, The Public Theater, HERE, PS 122, The Pompidou Center, The Holland Dance Festival, Abrons Arts Center, and the Venice Biennale.
Artist Statement
Throughout our careers, we have been striving to expand the understanding of media arts and technology, seeking a provocative synthesis of video, film, audio and sculptural objects to create multi-channel installations, single-channel pieces, as well as interactive video scores to accompany live performance. We have continually embraced an open, cross pollination of genres, media and styles, which inform, challenge and influence each other, pushing the work into new and unforeseen directions. We view this new project as an occasion to advance our aesthetic practice, by creating a hybrid and collaborative work, which embraces a combination of dance/theater, video installation, sound art, and set design to create an immersive and transformative experience.
Project Feed
We got a BAX Space Grant!
We are excited to have been selected for a BAX Space Grant for the fall! We will have a focused period of rehearsal - and then a showing in December. Dates TBA!
Culturemart Write-up
We got a short write-up about our Culturemart show on Infinite Body - she was disturbed in a good way! Seems that we are doing something right... Check it out here. http://infinitebody.blogspot.com/2012/02/keep-eye-on-culturemartists.html
